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Northern Advocate, 25 January 1922, Page 5

at least, some rats—lmve peculiar tastes (says the Chri-tchurch "Press"). The assistants of tho Public Library, who were in the habit of p'acinp- vases of flowers o'.i tho tibles, noticed recently that all the cirnations placed- in the vases, to the number of twenty or thirty, disappeared during the night. No flowers of any other variety were touched. The City Council rat campaign supplying the necessary stimulus, one of the staff suggested that a rat might be the cause of the disappearances, though no reason for its partiality for carnations were advanced. A trap was set with a carnation as bait, ard the brainy device met with welldeserved reward —the capture of a large black rat. The carnations may have been selected as being particularly suitable for nesting purposes, but that no other flowers at all should be touched is certainly peculiar.